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dishallow

dishallow verb: to render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.

Verb

dishallow (third-person singular simple present dishallows, present participle dishallowing, simple past and past participle dishallowed)

  1. (transitive) To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
    • Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross)
    • And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep
      Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep,
      Your sleep is death"[…]1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26

Forms of dishallow

third-person singular presentdishallows
present participledishallowing
past participledishallowed
pastdishallowed

Origin of dishallow

From dis- + hallow.

Questions about dishallow

What does dishallow mean?
Dishallow means to render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
What part of speech is dishallow?
Dishallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of dishallow?
The past tense of dishallow is dishallowed.

Words near dishallow in the dictionary

  1. dishabituations
  2. dishable
  3. dishabled
  4. dishables
  5. dishabling
  6. dishallow
  7. dishallowed
  8. dishallowing
  9. dishallows
  10. disharmonic
  11. disharmonical

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